If you don't vote, you don't count.
— Nancy Pelosi
With President Obama, we will move America forward.
Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
Jobs are central to the American dream - and President Obama has focused on jobs from day one.
I think about my parents all the time, especially on Sunday when I'm at Mass. My mother always said, 'We do not pray to win elections. We pray for people's health, we pray that God's will be done, we pray that we do our best. But we do not pray to win elections.'
With Americans worried about losing their jobs, their savings, their homes and their chance at the American Dream, the New Direction Congress will work in a bipartisan way to lift our economy and help America's middle class.
We are not going back to the failed policies of the past. We are fighting for the middle class!
I have newspapers coming to me and saying, 'Can we get in on the TARP?'.
Let's just do what is right for the American people. And those of us who are involved in politics and government know that our responsibility is to the American people, that we have a responsibility to find our common ground, to seek it and to find it.
I would never think of crying about any loss of an office, because that's always a possibility, and if you're professional, then you deal with it professionally.
My biggest fight has been between those who wanted to do something incremental and those who wanted to do something comprehensive. We won that fight, and once we kick through this door, there'll be more legislation to follow.
The impact of climate change is a tremendous risk to the security and well-being of our countries.
I will not be making appointments to a committee that is not bipartisan.
America must be a light to the world, not just a missile.
Democratic priorities remain clear: to provide a tax cut for working families, to promote policies that produce jobs and economic growth, and to assist millions of our fellow Americans who have lost their jobs through no fault of their own.
The American people voted to restore integrity and honesty in Washington, D.C., and the Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history.
The name 'Republican' in some ways has been hijacked by obstructionists.
Republicans support opening the floodgates to special interest money and suppressing the right to vote. It's just plain wrong.
Jobs mean freedom for workers to support their families.
Democrats believe in reigniting the American dream by removing barriers to success and building ladders of opportunity for all, so everyone can succeed.
I must have good genes from my parents because I feel no slowdown of energy, enthusiasm or even memory.
I say to my colleagues never confine your best work, your hopes, your dreams, the aspiration of the American people to what will be signed by George W. Bush because that is too limiting a factor.
What we're discussing privately and publicly, is a budget which is a blueprint for the future which creates jobs, which educates our children, which provides healthcare for all Americans, which takes our deficit down, which gives a tax cut for 95% of the American people.
We haven't really gotten the credit for what we have done.
Being the first woman speaker and breaking the marble ceiling is pretty important. Now it's time to move on.
Bipartisanship is nice, but it cannot be a substitute for action, not having it cannot prevent us from going forward.
We in Congress stand by Israel. In Congress, we speak with one voice on the subject of Israel.
Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs.
Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process.
The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence; he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history; and he failed to build a true international coalition.
After over 200 years, not even a fifth of Congress is women.
We have so much room for improvement. Every aspect of our lives must be subjected to an inventory... of how we are taking responsibility.
I never dread going back to Congress.
Democrats believe we must create jobs, not protect the special interests; build the economy from the middle out, not the top down.
The American dream is about freedom.
For 25 years, it has been my privilege to represent the city of San Francisco and the great state of California; to work to strengthen our vibrant middle class; to secure opportunity and equality.
If I cry, it's about the personal loss of a friend or something like that. But when it comes to politics - no, I don't cry.
If you make - not have - $1 million a year, should you not participate in the sense of community of our country? I'm willing to put that on the table.
In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
We're sad about some of the losses of members of great seniority and distinction in the Congress, and some very new members, who will no longer be serving with us.
I have deep emotions about the American people. If I were to cry for anything, I would cry for them and the policies that they're about to face.
Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.
But we have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.
Social Security has never failed to pay promised benefits, and Democrats will fight to make sure that Republicans do not turn a guaranteed benefit into a guaranteed gamble.
America will be far safer if we reduce the chances of a terrorist attack in one of our cities than if we diminish the civil liberties of our own people.
I have absolutely no regret about my vote against this war. The same questions remain. The cost in human lives, the cost to our budget, probably 100 billion. We could have probably brought down that statue for a lot less.
Americans deserve a better tomorrow, today.
